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Facebook Blogs

If you want to go straight to the source, Facebook has several blogs that you'll want to subscribe to. From here, you can generate your own opinions, but you'll always have the news, as it's released by Facebook. Facebook's blogs include the following:

• Facebook's Official Company Blog: You can access this at http://blog.facebook.com. (See Figure 18-10.) Here you frequently see updates from Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. This is where you can get any and all official updates from Facebook regarding its user interface and the general user experience. Don't go here if you just want to get updates about Facebook Platform, though.
• Facebook's Developer Blog: This is available at http://developers.facebook.com/blog (and also via the Blog link at developers.facebook.com). This is where Facebook posts all news surrounding Facebook's Developer platform. If there are ever any new updates, Developer events, or deprecations to code, Facebook will post those here. This is an important blog that you'll want to subscribe to as a developer.
• Facebook's Engineering Blog: If you want to really geek out, this is one of my favorites. This isn't really a blog, per se, but rather the Notes section of Facebook Engineering's Facebook Page. You can access it and the RSS feed via www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=9445547199.

  This blog is where Facebook's engineers all share what they are doing behind the scenes to build Facebook. Facebook has a massive infrastructure, and this is where the developers ...